DETAILS
- Artist
- Jacob de Wit
- Date
- 1715
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink with brush and gray wash, heightened with lead white (partly discolored), on blue laid paper, laid down on card
- Location
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Dimensions
- 21 × 16.8 cm (8 5/16 × 6 5/8 in.)
- Collection
- Prints and Drawings
- Culture
- Holland
- Credit line
- The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
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THE ARTIST
Jacob de Wit
Jacob de Wit, a Dutch master of ceiling and door paintings, famously documented Rubens's ceilings before their destruction.
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